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K I li r i i u n l REEZY BITS OF NEWS ARCTIC EXPLORER MOVES ON ICE FLOE IN CIRCLE. Dawson, Alaska. March 10. S. Storkerson, explorer, and his five men, who landed on an Arctic ice floe last year, expecting to float toward Siberia, drifted for eight months around a huge circle and finally landed near the mouth of the Colville river, Alaska, not far from Barter island, from where they started, according to word brought here by Royal Northwest mounted police. The pnrty established a camp in March, 1918, on an ice floe, 30 miles long, seven miles wide, and from 50 to 100 feet thick. GERMAN WORKMEN GET U. S. FOOD AS PAY. Cohlenz, March 10. In preparing plans for the employment of from 10,000 to 15,000 German civilians on road repairing and other work in the American area of occupation, American main headquarters has approved a proposal that the Ger man be paid partly in rations. The laborers will be paid in marks collected from the Berlin government, with the privilege of taking part of their pay in corned beef, flour, sugar and coffee at th" end of the week. The laborers will receive from eight to nine marks a day. The charge for the rations also will be checked against Berlin. UNIVERSAL UNION OF LABOR GOMPERS PLAN. Paris, March 10. The delegates from the AmeYican Federation cf Labor visited , the labor -exchange today. "The league of nations." said Samuel Gompers, head of the delegation, "if .above all, a league of the people, which above all must secure to the proletariat world guar antees of peace and liberty." Mr. Gompers urged a universal union of working classes in frater nity of the peoples. GALVIN SAYS SOCIAL UNIT DANGEROUS SCHEME. . Cincinnati, O., Marc,h 10. Mayor John Galvin of this city created a sensation here today by issuing a formal statement that the social unit, experimented with in a certain district here for the first time and which is being advocated for ex tensions throughout every large city in the country, is a most dangerous type of socialism.' The mayor said: "I consider it a dangerous in stitution in our city and but one step away from bolshevism." EMBEZZLES MILLIONS; SERVES OUT EIGHT YEARS. Louisville, Ky., March 10. August Rhopke, who in 1910 was convicted nf embezzling $1 400.000 from the Fidelity Trust company of Louis ville and for which he was sentenced to serve a term of 10 years in the s'.ats penitentiary, today was grant ed a parole. COURT-MARTIALS MAKE BOLSHEVIKI OF YOUTHS. New York, March 10. Describing certain court-martial sentences in the American army as, "things that make bolsheviki of our young men," Senator George E. Chamberlain, chairman of the senate committee on military affairs, sharply criticised court-martial procedure in an ad dress before the United States States League of Amareci here to day. , Referring to long sentences which had been imposed for slight infrac tions of the rules, Senator Chamber lain'said that "these boys know that an injustice has been done them and it will not increase their respect for the government." "I have found boys of 17 and 18, not yet mature" he continued "sent away for Ion? terms in prison, some of them because they were absent without leave homesick youths who left to say goodby to their mothers or perhaps a last word with their sweethearts. Five days away led one of them to be sentenced for 40 years." POPE BENEDICT CONFIRMS BISHOPS AND ARCHBISHOPS Rome, March 10. Pope Benedict held a consistory today and con firmed the American bishops and archbishops appointed by brief since the last consistory, granting the pallium to the new American arch bishops. In his allocution the pope ex pressed the hope that the new ar rangement of the world would be in spired by sentiments of justice and fairness, capable of bringing about a true and lasting peace. NEW PEANUTS OFF LIST OF RESTRICTED IMPORTS. Washington, March 10. Removal of peanuts from the list of restricted imports was announced tonight by the War trade board. Licenses will be issued for the importation of peanuts from the country of origin rw m.im4rv nvrcMi market, hut not from stores now held in Canada un less purchase was made prior to April 14, last. MANY HUN HELMETS PUT ON BARGAIN COUNTER. Washington, March 10. Eighty five thousand captured German hel mets, forwarded to the United States by General Perching, were fold today by the War department for $1. The purchaser was Frank R. Wilson, publicity director of the Liberty loan, who will ship the hel mets from New York to district headquarters of the loan organiza tion to be used as prizes for victory Liberty loan workers in the forth coming campaign. The purchase was agreed upon af ter War department lawyers had de clared it was illegal for the govern ment to give away any materials. HYLAN PUTS STOP TO GERMAN OPERAS. New York, March 10. At the in stance of Mayor Hylan and Police Commissioner Enright, who de clared that the projected perfor mances might provoke disorder, the management of the Lexington theater today canceled arrange ments for a season of German operas, the first of which was to be oresented tonight Entered Omim Solicitor Lamar Submits Memorandum Laying Plot Formed by Men Who Would Wreck U.S. Washingtn. March 10. Solicitor General Lamar of the Postoffice de partment submitted a memorandum to the senate propaganda committee today stating that the I. W. W.. an archists, socialists and ethers were "perfecting an amalgumation with one object the overthrow of the government of the United States by means of a bloody revolution and the establishment of a bolshevik re public." Mr. Lamar said his con clusion was based upon information contained in seized mail matter. Accompanying the memorandum were several hundred excerpts from the mail matter. Mr. Lamar said this propaganda was being con ducted with "such regularity that its magnitude can be measured by the bold and outspoken statements con tained in these publications and the efforts made therein to inaugurate a nationwide reign of terror and overthrow the government" Foreign Elements Active. Mr. Lamar said it was significant that this was the first time "in the history of the so-called radical movement in the United States that these radical elements have found a common cause (bolshevism) in which they can all unite." He re ferred particularly to the dissatis fied foreign elements as being active in the propaganda. "The I. W. W.." said Mr. Lamar, "is perhaps most actively engaged in spreading this propaganda and has at its command a large field force known as recruiting agents subscription agents, etc. who work unceasingly in the furtherance of 'the cause.'" After referring to the excerpts from the seized mail matter, the solicitor general's memorandum said in part: Plan Reign of Terror. "This propaganda is being con ducted with such regularity that its magnitude can be measured by the bold and outspoken statements contained in the,se publications and the efforts made therein to inaug urate a nationwide reign of terror and overthrow the government. "In classifying these statements they are submitted in a major or general class as follows: "I. W. W., anarchist, radical-socialistic and socialistic. "It will be seen from these ex cerpts, and it is indeed significant, that this is the first time in the his tory of the so-called radical move ment in the United States that the radical elements have found a com mon cause (bolshevism) in which they can all unite. The I. W. W.. anarchists, radical and otherwise, in fact, all dissatisfied elements, par ticularly the foreign element, are perfecting amalgamation with one object, and with one object only in view, namely, the overthrow of the government of the United States by the means of a bloody revolution and the establishment of a bolshevik republic. "The I. W. W. is perhaps most actively engaged in spreading this propaganda and has at its command a large field force known as re cruiting agents, subscription agents, etc., who work unceasingly in the furtherance of 'the cause.' Fourteen Official Papers. "This organization publishes at least five newspapers in the English language and nine in foreign lan guages, as shown in the list given below. This list comprises only of ficial papers of the organization and does not take into account the large number of free lance papers pub lished in the interest of the above organization." 1 The newspapers listed were: The New Solidarity, English, weekly, Chicago: One Big Union, English, monthly, Chicago; Industrial Union ist, English, weekly,' Seattle; Cali fornia Defense Bulletin, English weekly, San Francisco; The Rebel Worker, English, bi-monthly. New York; La Neuva Solidaridad, Span ish, weekly, Chicago; Golos Tru zenta, Russian, weekly, Chicago; Li Nuovo Proletario, Italian, week ly, Chicago; Nya Varlden, Swedish, weekly. Chicago; Der Industrial Arbeiter, Jewish, weekly. Chicago; Probuda, Bulgarian, weekly, Chi cago; A Fels Badulas, Hungarian, weekly, Chicago. Seattle's Shipyard Workers Decide to Return to Work Seattle Wash., March 10. Seat tle's big shipyards, idle since Janu ary 21, when approximately 25,000 workmen struck for higher pay, will reopen tomorrow, the men having voted to return to work for the same wages received before they went out. Tacoma and Aberdeen yards. closed by a strike of about 15,000 men, will also resume operatons, VOL. 48 NO. 228. BOLSHEVIK REPUBLIC IS PLAN OF EMIES THE ONLY NEBRASKA PAPER WITH A ROTOGRAVURE PICTURE n 7 JlXILV Mcogfl-clan mailer May W, 1906. t P. O. unier act at March 3. U79 Spartacans Force German Soldiers to Climb in Wagon Where They Shoot All Down As Soon as Vehicle Is Full of Dead Bodies, It Is Taken Away and Another Brought Forward, and Same Bloody Scenes Re-enacted In Heart of Berlin. By the Associated Press. Berlin, March 10. A story of wholesale, cold-blooded murders, including the shooting of 60 detectives, by the Spartacan forces, was told today under oath by a government soldier who had been captured by the insurgents but man aged to escape. He and 18 other soldiers had been captured in the vicinity of Warschauerstrass, in the eastern part of the city, and were taken into a court back of a group of buildings occupied by the bpartacans, Forced Into Wagon, The prisoners, the soldier as serts, were compelled one by one to climb into a wagon, where they were shot down by the insurgents. When the wagon became full of bodies it was taken away and an other brought forward. While this was going on a band of Spartacans brought in 60 de tectives, who had been captured in the attack on the Lichtenberg police station. The detectives were killed with revolver shots between the eyes at close quarters. Those who re sisted were held by other Sparta cans while the executioner fired the shots. A government bicycle cour ier, who was brought in about the same time, was held by the hands and feet and tortured before being shot. U. S. MEMORIAL TO FRENCH NEAR RIVER KIIEIulS Hospital to Stand Just Be neath Shell Battered Cathedral as Lasting Token. Paris, March 10, Overlooking the 15,000 roofless houses of Rheims and overshadowed by its battered cathedral, will stand the first great memorial to the American dead in France. ' This seems assured by official ad vices that have reached the Paris headquarters of the American fund for French wounded to the effect that the French government will deed to the fund ground' in he en virons of Rheims on which a great American hospital will be erected. The sum of $100,000 for the pur pose has been .guaranteed by the American fund organization in the United States. Eleven Thousand Persons Employed by Packers and Yards More than 11,000 men- find daily employment jwith the South Side packing companies and stock yards. The figures have just been made public by the packing house and stock yards officials at the request of the South Side Federal Employ ment agency. Cudahy Packing company em ploys the largest numbers of per sons, giving work to 3,250 indivi duals. Armour is the next largest employer among the packing com panies. About 3,000 men and women are employers there. Swift's em ploys 2,647 persons and Morris & Co. gives employment to 1,606 men and women. Three hundred and twenty-five men are employed in erecting the new Skinner Packing company while the stock yards employs 483 people. A material increase in the number of employes is expected as the great er number of these concerns are short of help. Lieutenant Commander Dalton, Nebraska Boy, Dies of Pneumonia New. York, March 10. Lieutenant Commander John P. Dalton, former navy football star, died of pneumonia today in the New York navy yard hospital, after a week's illness. He was seized with influenza while serv ing as navigating officer of the United States cruiser Frederick, temporarily engaged as a troop transport. Commander Dalton, 29 years old, was graduated from the United States naval academy in 1912. Dur inf all for years at Annapolis he was quarterback on the eleven. Born in Nebraska, he entered the academy from St. Louis. Commander Dalton was a native of Custer County, Nebraska. Longshoremen Join Strike. New York, March 10. In sympa thy with the strike of marine work ers against private boat owners, nearly 20,000 longshoremen quit work today, refusing to handle the freight delivered to piers by boats manned by non-union workers. Omaha OMAHA, TUESDAY, The division of cavalry rifle-men which is in charge of the work of clearing the city of Spartacans re ports further, instances of cruel murders by the insurgents. An auto mobile with seven soldiers was at tacked in Warschauerstiass and all were murdered. Another automobile filled with volunteer soldiers was captured and nothing has been heard from them. A woman sollier in the Sparta can ranks who was captured by the government troops is said to have confessed participation in more than 20 killings. The Spartacans also are accused of using airplanes for attacks on peaceable citizens. The bomb which was dropped on a crowd on Bulowplatz is said to have been thrown by a Spartacan aviator .' DANIELS HALTS work on sn BIG BATTLESHIPS Conference to Be Held at Which Entire Navy Build ing Program May Un-. dergo Change. Washington, March 10.Possibil ity that the whole battle cruiser pro gram of the navy, involving an ex penditure of nearly- $500,00Q,000 will be abandoned in favor of a new type of cruiser battleship was indicated today by an announcement that Sec retary Daniels had ordered suspen sion oL work on the six 35-knot cruiser? already authorized until a decision as to the , future type ot capital ship could be reached. 1 here is a wide difference of opin ion among American naval officers as to whether the slow battleship and the fast cruiser' should not give way in. the future to a ship combin ing the power of one and nearly the speed of the other and because of this fact congressional committees have deferred action on six annual cruisers, until a full report on new types can.be made by. the depart ment. It is gather information for this report that Secretary Daniels and his three chief technical advisers will sail Saturday for Europe. They will be met overseas by Admiral Benson, chief of operations, and Vice Admiral Sims, and upon their return some weeks before congress meets in extra session, probably in fhe early summer, a general con ference will be held at which a majority opinion of experienced of ficers will be worked out as to what types of capital ships- should be built. Seek Name and Address of Soldiers Injured in War Washington, March 10. Some 13,000 disabled men were discharged from the army before the- federal board for vocational education was permitted to establish contact with them in order to deal with their cases. The board now desires to get in touch with these men so as to acquaint them with the benefits which congress has provided for them. The board in a statement to day asked persons knowiner of anv such disabled soldiers to send their names and addresses to its head quarters in Washington. Towl Leads Woman's Club On 'See Omaha First' Trip Park Commissioner Shows Members of Social Science Department the Beauty of City by Maps. A "See Omaha first" trip, conduct ed by Commissioner Roy N. Towl by means of pictures and maps, was taken by the political and social science department of the Omaha Woman's club Monday afternoon. The park commissioner's mother, Mrs. E. B. Towl, was in charge. "Omaha has picturesque and ar tistic advantages, especially along the river front, which are second to no other spot in the world. We must develop these potentialities," the speaker urged. He emphasized the hnportaut part D AELY MARCH 11, 1919. Throngs Turned Away When Auditorium and Annex Filled on Opening Night , of Auto Show. Throngs of people were turned away from the Auditorium last night after more than 5,000 had entered to view the beautiful array of motor cars on exhibition. The occasion was grand opening night of Omaha's Fourteenth Annual Auto mobile show. Orchestras in every part of the building marked the occasion with special popular and classic selections. Oleson's music, and punch served at various parts of the building kept the crowds in a cheery mood. Beginning today, the doors of the Auditorium will open at 9:30 o'clock every day this week to give" out-of-town visitors, who intend to stay in Omaha but a few days ample op portunity to attend the show. Tonight has been designated as farmers' night. Special music and other features will prevail. Thurs day night is set aside for musical events. Friday night is for the army and navy. Engines Visible. Open models of many cars are the chief attractions to the prospec tive buyer. Every part of a car in operation is visitble in these models and afford the visitor knowledge of the workings of the motor and transmission so vital to the life of a car. The automobile of low price as shown in this week's display has the attractive appearance and ser vice of the high grade car of a few years ago. The medium priced models are the most popular. Great interest is shown in the high grade tnqdels rangmg in price from $2,000 to $7,200. and exhibiting styles from the Bobcat speedster to the royally finisher limousine. The first car sale at the show is attributed to J. P. Linch, general manager of the Paterson Motor Cai company of Omaha. D. R. Hughes, engineer on the Wabash railroaa. wrote out a check for a Paterson Six less than a half-hour after the doors opened for the grand open ing. Sells Second Car. Douglas Bowie, salesmanager for the Omaha Liberty Auto company, takes credit for the second sale of a car. A special-finish automobile was sold by him to Harry Cheek. South Side commission man, short ly after the show opened. Many local automobile companies ar-honored with the visits of fac tory representatives and ' officials who in many instances are in Omaha during automobile week to intro duce new models of cars to the pub lic. Direct from the Nebraska head quarters of the Liberty Automobile company are R. D. Herzog, general manager of Nebraska agencies for the Liberty Six, and I. L. DeVoe and J. H. Jarvis, salesmen. The busiest man at the Automo bile show is Clarke Powell, general manager of the affair. The fact that every car and motor truck on exhibition was in its respective booth by noon yesterday and all ar rangements for the opening even to the minute details in decorations were concluded in time, is due to Mr. Powell's efficient management. Show Liberty Motor. The object of greatest attention is the famous twelve-cylinder Liberty motor which rendered such efficient service for the government. Persons came from afar to inspect the mechanism of the engine. The display of trucks in the base ment is as interesting an exhibit of American manufacturing genius as has ever been shown. One of the largest trucks jn the display is turned on its side and the motor covered with glass to insure the visitor close view of its construc tion. women should take in securing re sults. "Men can do the construction but you women must provide the art touch." "Dress Up" 13th Street. "We want to "dress up" South Thirteenth street until it looks like Woolworth avenue," said the dfcini missioncr, showing views of both sections. Memiroal bridges which will last 1,000 years, taking over and beautify ing every foot of the Missouri river line; acquisition of the peninsula on the inner side of Carter lake, park ing the Brown park district, camou flage falls and other novel decorative effects in parks and blending park and industrial schemes were among the "beauty for Omaha" recommen dations made by the park commissioner Mil TO SsPLAY SECTION EACH SUNDAY Dally and Sua.. SS.M: autiUa Nat. B Mall II ar). Dll. 1.I0. Z2 3 JL Getting News Conference Becomes Real Task For Newspaper Men Members of High Commission Close Up Like Clams and Then Exercise Censorship Over Few Fragments of News and Gossip That Happen to Filter Through Corridors of Building. By JAMES J. Staff Correspondent of Universal Service, Who Has Just Returned From Paris. New York, March 10. In common with 50 or 60 other correspondents I went to the presed by the phrase "open covenants," openly entered into. This phrase had been made before. It seemed to us optimistic news writers, to mean that the world, through us was to know all that was going on at the peace table. When we got to Pans we the American commission to would be no censorship. The French have promised that the cables shall be free," said this official, reassuringly. "If you hear ot any case of censorship of any kind whatever, come to me and I shall see that it is stopped." Well, we speedily heavd of a case of censorship, and then another and another, and then so many that they soon got beyond reckoning. Early in the session all the papers printed in Paris and three or four of the French papers appeared with large white spaces m them. In vestigating, we found that the same SAYS WIFE WENT W!T!!01EI1!1: FIGHTS DIVORCE Husband Alleges She Aban doned Him and Their Two Babies While He Was in the Army. Cary Heydorn of Bellevue has filed an answer in district court to his wife's petition for divorce, al leging she abandoned him and their two babies and has "taken up" with a man named Morris Nelson. He says she lived in the same house with Nelson, while he, Heydorn, was in the military service. Mrs. Heydorn, in her petition for divorce, filed last August, alleged that her husband had become an habitual drunkard, kept company with other women and, on one oc casion, abandoned her for a period of five months.. Mr. Heydorn alleges in his an swer that his wife abandoned him and their two babies, aged 1J4 and 2Vi years. She went away, he says while he was out "on the road" as a locomotive engineer. They lived then in Aberdeen, S. D. Found Children Alone. When he returned to find his wife gone and the children alone, he says he took them to the home of his mother. Mrs. Laura Heydorn, in Bellevue and then returned to his work in Aberdeen, where he re mained until he was drafted into the army. Later, he says, his wife came to Bellevue and asked his mother to let her have the children for a day. She failed to return the children to. his mother, he says. On one occasion, he says, he found his wife and Mr. Morris together in Bellevue, and he says Morris fired two revolver shots at him. He says his wife has a violent dis position. He asks that her petition for divorce be dismissed and that the children be given into his mother's custody. President Wilson, Rid of Cold, Feels Fine and Plays Shuffle - Board On Board U. S. S. George Wash ington, March 10. (By Wireless to the Associated Press.) President Wilson this afternoon appeared to have entirely recovered from the cold from which he had been suffer ing. The president walked about the ship and also played shuffle- board on deck with Mrs. v ilson. President WWilson received sev er' messages today from Col. E. M H.ase regarding the developments at the peace conterence and the pro gram which has been arranged after the president's arrival in France. The president sent replies. The George Washington is ex pected to arrive at Brest between 3 and o p. m. 1 hursday. Subcommittee to Make Rathbun Pardon Probe Des Moines, la., March 10. (Spe cial Telegram.) A special commit tee of five, of which Representative T. P. Harrington of Sioux City is chairman, will submit five names out of which one or possibly two will be selected as special investigators of the Rathbun pardon probe in the house. This was decided at a meeting of the house judiciary committee this afternoon. The subcommittee will report to the main judiciary com nnttee. No further nroeress on the investigation was made by the leg islature today. aoitata ntn TWO CENTS SuniU. ti.50: v vyuii i u. "Z3 C From Peace MONTAGUE. peace conference, much im- by Mr. Wilson, a little while were assured by a member of negotiate peace that there thing had happened to our dis patches. Not Pleasing to French. The censored news recited that the English had made a proposal to invite all the Russian government, including the bolsheviki, to be represented at the peace conference. It apparently did not please the French, at least for the time being, for it did not get out of Paris that night. One French paner for some reason printed it. The next day all (Continued n Page Two, Column Thrw.) MAY ASK DUTCH TO INTERN BILL IIOKOLLERN Special Committee to Fix Pun ishment of War Culprits Grows More and More Puzzled What to Do. By JUSTIN M'GRATH. Staff Correspondent of Universal Service. (Special Wireless Dispatch.) Paris, March 10. (Bv Radio via London.) The special committee on fixing the responsibility for the war and providing for punishment of the culprits is growing; more and more perplexed as the question is studied., The investigators must dis- unguisn Deiwen me iormer Kaiser and the German government if an indictment is to be drawn tip against him. They find this a difficult task. Furthermore the committee can not see how the powers can get hold of the ex-kaiser without violating treaties with Holland. The fear per sists that unless the former emper or is kept under the control of the allies he may return to Germany when1 conditions there are settled and may return to rule. This must be prevented but how? No definite answer has been found to this ques tion. One sucreestion is that Holland be asked to give up Count Hohen- zollern ot her own accord or give guarantees that she .(Holland) will be responsible to the allies for keep ing him interned for life. Rainbow Division Soon to Leave France and Start for States Washington, March 10. General Pershing cabled the War depart ment today that he had issued or ders for the Forty-second Railbow division to prepare for embarkation This would indicate that the Forty second may be expected to sail be tween April 10 and 15, as the aver age period between such orders and embarkation has been one month. . Coblenz, March 10. The Forty second American division (Rain bow), first division of the army of occupation to start home, will btgin entraining for Antwerp, April 1. Urders to this ettect have been re ceived from headquarters. It is estimated that about a week will be required to transport the en tire body of men and their equip ment from headquarters on the Rhine to Antwerp. All the loco motives and cars to be used in the transportation are to be of Ameri can make, the commanding officer desiring to use American cars be cause they are larger than the French and German. Tunnel Under English Channel Now Seems Certain London, March 10 The Daily Mail claims to have definite infor mation that the British and French governments have agreed to the construction of a tunnel under the channel and that the details are now being discussed by a special commission in Paris, which also is considering the building of tunnels under the Bosphorur and th Straits of Gibraliar, Oppose German Union Paris, March 10. (Havas.1 France and Italy, according to the Gaulois, are fully in accord in op posing energetically the union of German-Austria with Germany. THE WEATHER: Fair Tueday nd Wednesday; warmer Tuedays coldir in wt and north by Wednesday night. Hourly TvmiHWMttirrN! Iluur. lii'K. Hour. A a. ni H a. in 1 a. in N a. In O a. in..,., 10 a. mi 11 a. m 14 in ..w 1 i .ill' i V in in t lU m ill 50 a i in an hi.. :tt III S3 1 I'. ....itli " l. . .;! 7 l, ....41! M l. in. GAN6 G Confessed Auto Thief at the Trial of "Red" Neal Im plicates Katleman and Jones. i William McKeiiitt, confessed autf mobile thief, told a story yesterday at the trial of "Red" Neal, which showed the busin'ess of automobile stealing in Omaha almost as matter of-fact as any legitimate business. According to McKenna's story, Neal and Maurice Katleman were the "men higher up." He testified that they "ordered" cars and he and his pal, L. C. Jones, stole the cars on the Omaha streets, drove them to Nebraska City and left them, by agreement, "on the east side of the court house, with the cushions turn ed up." From there, he said, they were handled by Neal, who lives in Peru. Neal and Katleman are charged with abetting grand larceny. Katle man runs a haberdashery in the Rose building, Sixteenth and Farnam streets. The trial of Katleman it to come later. Meet Men Higher Up. ' According to McKenna's torT yesterday, he and Jones, met Neal and Katleman by appointment about September 19, 1918. With Neal and Katleman, McKenna said, were two two men whose names were Emmett Clark and James Clark from Mis couri. "Those four were in a Hudson super six taxihac," said McKenna, "We got in with them and drove to Shashay's road house on the Cartt-i lake boulevard. I and Jones weni into the barn and brought out the car, a Buick roadster that we had stolen at Fifteenth and Farnam. "Who stole that car?" askcti County Attorney Shotwell. "I did," said McKenna. "What did Neal and Katleman say when you brought the car out?" "They offered us $75 for it. We finally agreed to take it and they told us to drive it down to the end of the car line at Albright. We did and the taxicab brought the other four men down and they met us there. We turned the Buick over to the Clarks and then Jones and I got in the t?.xi and rode up towt; with, Neal and Katleman. Price For Stolen Cars. "On the way up they asked us M get more cars for them. Neal saiJ they would pay us $150 for Oakland: and $100 for Fords and we said we'd get them, some more. Aicnenna declared tnat about a week later Katleman called him tip at the home of his sister-in-law and asked him to come to his store. Ar riving there, he said, Katleman said he had received a telephone call from Neal at rem that he wanted an Oakland car and they should leave it at Nebraska City on the east side ot the court house and turn the cushions up. 1 j "So . we went over on Harney street and found one between Seven teenth and Eighteenth," said Mc Kenna. "We drove it to Nebraska City, left it on the east side of tin court house, turned up the cushion went to a restaurant and had supper and then took the train for Omaha Wanted Another Oakland. McKenna said Katleman met them by appointment at Sixteen' h and Harney streets and said hs didn't have the money in full, but gave them $20. On September 28. he testified, Katleman- again told him that Neal had telephoned to send down another Oakland nnf that he would pay them in fu'.i when it was delivered in Nebraska City. Then ensued the theft on which the' present case is based, a car belonging to C. J. Taniulewicz, McKenna related this in the san e cool, businesslike manner as the other thefts. "We went out and found an Oak land 'six' at Seventeenth and Far '. ira streets," he said. "So v - took (Continued on Pae Two, Column FlirJ Aerial Mail Service for Omaha Is Promised During Coming Fall New York, March 10. Regtiiaf operation of the aerial mail service between New York and Chicago be fore the summer is over and its probable early extension from C! i cago to Omaha, Minneapolis and M. Paul, was promised today by Otto Praeger, t:cond assistant post master general, who was the puest of honor at today's sessions of tits aeronautical exposition. Praeger asserted that 18 planes, specially designed for night trans portation of mail, now under con struction and delivery, has been promised by April 15." Regular mail service between New York and Chi cago, he added, would begin soon after these planes hud been delivered and accepted. The expansion of tj :. scrvite is not expected until " mm. TELLS lor